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Kim Newman, in his 1988 book Nightmare Movies, called The Howling "a brisk chiller that effortlessly revives the prowling-through-misty-forests genre", and called Picardo's transformation sequence "the movies' most impressive werewolf monster".
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Eddie the Mangler
Karen White is a news anchor and investigative journalist working for Channel 6 KDHD news in Los Angeles, California. For weeks now, KDHD has been working with local police in their ongoing efforts to track down and apprehend a serial killer known only as Eddie the Mangler. Eddie, having taken an interest in Karen White, contacts her and arranges for her to meet with him. Karen becomes part of a sting operation to bring Eddie down. Wearing a wire, she goes to an adult book store where she is...
The Colony
Karen and Bill drive to the Colony and arrive there in the early evening. They are greeted by several affable men and women including Jerry Warren, his wife Donna, Erle Kenton, Charlie Barton, Sheriff Sam Newfield, T.C. Quist and his sister, Marsha. Donna Warren immediately ingratiates herself with Karen and warns her that Marsha Quist is a nymphomaniac and she may want to keep a close eye on her husband. While enjoying a bonfire barbeque, Karen and Bill notice elderly Erle Kenton behaving st...
Call of the Wild
That evening, Bill wanders back out into woods. He secretly meets with Marsha Quist and the two begin fornicating near a bonfire under the full moon. Both Marsha and Bill transform into werewolves during their sexual escapade. In the heat of passion, Marsha rakes her claws across Bill's back. The following morning, Terry begins looking around the place and eventually finds the lake that was represented in Eddie Quist's drawing. She then finds the Quist family cabin and begins looking about. S...
Dee Wallace as Karen WhiteChristopher Stone as Bill NeillRobert Picardo as Eddie QuistPatrick Macnee as George WaggnerThe Howling is the first film in a franchise that spawned six sequels. The following film in the series is The Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf.This movie is loosely based on a 1977 novel by Gary Brandner. Ironically, it is actually the fourth installment in the film series, Howling IV: The Original Nightmarethat is a more faithful adaptat...The film was shot in just 28 days plus days of re-shoots.Though the film has been noted for its semi-humorous screenplay, it began life as a more straightforward 1977 novel by Gary Brandner. After drafts by Jack Conrad (the original director who left following difficulties with the studio) and Terence H. Winkless proved unsatisfactory, director Joe Dante hired John Sayles to completely rewrite the script...
The plot and characters of the film deviate from the original novel in many ways: 1. In the novel, Karen White is called Karyn Beatty. Her husband in the novel is called Roy Beatty (as opposed to Bill Neill in the film). Neither Karyn or Roy work in television. 2. In the novel, Karyn is raped by a man in her apartment. In the movie, she is saved by...
The Howling at WikipediaThe Howling at the Internet Movie DatabaseThe Howling at AllMovieThe Howling at Rotten TomatoesOct 27, 2023 · The Howling is a creature effect lover’s dream; although it takes its time building up to the werewolf action, once it gets there, it's jam-packed with stunning creature makeup and...
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- The Howling (1981) While most franchise rankings are topped by the original, rarely is there a case like this, where the original stands not only head and shoulders above everything after, but stands atop snow-capped mountain peaks beyond them.
- Howling 2: Your Sister Is A Werewolf (1985) Blessed with one of the best subtitles in horror history, Howling 2 tough to rank. Plotwise, it's probably worse than Howling s 5 or 6.
- Howling 5: The Rebirth (1989) Howling 5: The Rebirth is on par with Howling 6 in quality, but edges it out due to a rare instance of a werewolf being used as the killer in a murder mystery setup.
- Howling 6: The Freaks (1991) Part 6 marks the point where the sequels stop being actively awful and just become middling with a few decent moments. Howling 6 sports a decent premise, with a depressed and misunderstood werewolf being forced to find solace in an American Horror Story style carnival freak show.
Mar 21, 2021 · Based on the novel printed in 1978 of the same name, The Howling was one of the few werewolf films that spawned a wave of lycanthrope films to come out of the decade. It was in good company leading the 1981 charge side by side with An American Werewolf in London and Wolfen.
Oct 16, 2021 · Joe Dante’s “The Howling” (1981) is a noteworthy entry in the werewolf genre, a work that helped put Dante on the map (though “Gremlins” would do that far more so in 1984) and stands out for being an unusual horror film.
Brandner's second and third Howling novels, published in 1979 and 1985, respectively, have no connection to the film series, though he was involved in writing the screenplay for the second Howling film, Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf. He died of esophageal cancer in 2013.
